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Financing Vaccines for Global Health Security
Vu, Jonathan T. - 2020
Recent outbreaks of infectious pathogens such as Zika, Ebola, and COVID-19 have underscored the need for the dependable availability of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). The cost and risk of R&D programs and uniquely unpredictable demand for EID vaccines have discouraged...
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A Fuzzy Logic Approach Toward Solving the Analytic Maze of Health System Financing
Chernichovsky, Dov - 2001
Improved health, equity, macro-economic efficiency, efficient provision of care, and client satisfaction are the common goals of the health system. The relative significance of these goals varies, however, across nations, communities, and with time. As for health care finance, the attainment of...
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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective
Stabile, Mark - 2013
This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459221
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International Health Economics
Egan, Mark - 2013
medical innovations whose returns are earned worldwide. Because world returns drive innovation and innovation is central to … countries when governments centrally price health care. Providing world returns to medical innovation under such central pricing … benefit of medical innovation. This has the direct normative implication that medical innovations have inefficiently low world …
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Health Care Capital Financing Agencies : The Intergovernmental Roles of Quasi-Government Authorities and the Impact on the Cost of Capital
Gershberg, Alec Ian - 1999
During the decade 1983-1992, approximately 1.4 trillion dollars of municipal bonds were sold in 87 thousand separate issues, primarily to finance capital projects for education, electric power, transportation, health care, housing and other public and private purpose activities. Approximately...
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The Opportunities and Limitations of Monopsony Power in Healthcare : Evidence from the United States and Canada
Chown, Jillian - 2019
Perhaps more than any other sector of the economy, healthcare depends on government resources. As a result, many healthcare systems rely on the use of government monopsony power to decrease spending. The United States is a notable exception, where prices in large portions of the healthcare...
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Long-Term Care Hospitals : A Case Study in Waste
Einav, Liran - 2018
There is substantial waste in U.S. healthcare, but little consensus on how to identify or combat it. We identify one specific source of waste: long-term care hospitals (LTCHs). These post-acute care facilities began as a regulatory carve-out for a few dozen specialty hospitals, but have expanded...
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Free for Children? Patient Cost-sharing and Healthcare Utilization
Iizuka, Toshiaki - 2018
This study exploits over 5,000 variations in subsidy generosity across ages and municipalities in Japan to examine how children respond to healthcare prices. We find that free care significantly increases outpatient spending, with price elasticities considerably smaller than for adults. Price...
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Deterrence Effects of Antifraud and Abuse Enforcement in Health Care
Howard, David H. - 2020
Estimates of the benefits of antifraud enforcement in health care typically focus on direct monetary damages. Deterrence effects are acknowledged but unquantified. We evaluate the impact of a Department of Justice investigation of hospitals accused of billing Medicare for unnecessary implantable...
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Medical Research and Health Care Finance : Evidence from Academic Medical Centers
Azoulay, Pierre - 2020
Academic Medical Centers (AMCs)--comprising medical schools, teaching hospitals, and research laboratories)--play an important role in US biomedical innovation. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA) changed the formula used to reimburse Medicare inpatient claims and subsidies for medical...
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